I will confess to using AOL, IE6 (that's the reason I don't use IE anymore), PointCast, Comet Cursor and I bought a computer with Windows ME on it. And I'm sure I had some Sony CDs. Oh I tried that Priceline service - it sucked.

12. It was the only service available here back in the days except for AOL.

I didn't had to buy a PC with the plan.

But you know what was funny? I never paid for it. They cut me off, and I called their number, which connected me to some German student who turned me on immediately again. I had to pay for the dial-up phone bill, though, and you don't wanna know ... I remember a Canadian buddy of mine on IRC staying on there for 24/7 for one month. (This was around 1996 I think.) He wasn't seen for a long time after he got a phone bill around $ 3,000.--

Hi,I never had any problems with the thing myself. Ran it on a desktop for years until the computer itself just became outdated as Windows machines do. Maybe I was one of the lucky ones but all the programs I ran worked fine.

Why isn't Vista on the list? I never messed with that, but I know my work did not go to that at all and waited for XP.

15. don't 8 tracks rate in there somewhere or is this all about the computers?

Edited on Mon Apr-04-11 05:45 PM by Kali

I am pretty sure I had IE6 back when, but thanks to the good people right here on DU (especially the computer help group) I have come a long way. Maybe not as far as some of them would like, but that isn't in any way their fault - they should all be really proud of their patience, altruism, and teaching abilities. I will forever be grateful to RoyGBiv for saving my ass over the phone one time when I got in over my head with my father's machine, even though he doesn't post here much anymore.

I owned stock in AOL, but never used it. Had a relative that was a VP there at one point. I made a fair amount of money, and sold out in '99, so I kept it.

Somewhere along the line, I got a copy of RealPlayer. Probably bundled with something else. When I still used Windows boxes. It didn't work, and since it was a Windows box, I didn't ever try to remove it. Just ignored it.

Had a copy of Windows Millenium bundled with something else. Never loaded it. Ditto Microsoft Bob.

Had a couple of Iomega Zip drives. One internal, one external. I used them, and I liked them. Never had any problems with them. Still have a dozen or so disks still lying around.

Got a CueCat in the mail, unsolicited, from Forbes magazine to which I had a subscription. Never tried to use it.

When AOL dropped those for Microsoft Internet Explorer I quit. It wasn't easy. I had to file a complaint with my credit card company.

Zip drives were a necessity anyplace that dealt with files larger than a floppy disk would hold. You could put a big file on a Zip disk and carry it someplace faster than you could send it over a dial-up connection.

Before she married Bill. I always held the theory that he married her to keep her from bankrupting the company. Sure, their OS platforms are infamous flops at times, but maybe Bill didn't want them to have any competition.

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